The development of antimicrobial coatings for footwear components is of great interest both from industry and consumer's point of view. In this work, antimicrobial leather materials were developed taking advantage of chitosan intrinsic antimicrobial activity and film forming capacity. Considering the specificities of the leather tanning industry, different coating technologies, namely drum, cal...

Sample 1: insole from black boot 120 Sample 2: tissue lining leather of black boot 640 Sample 3: insole from red boot 11 Sample 4: tissue lining leather of red boot 1.3 or leather sofas and armchairs manufactured in China. This substance has a wide-spectrum biocide activity and it is contained in paper bags, and progressively it can evaporate and contaminate the leather, textiles, food, cosmeti...

Received: February 25, 2016 Revised: May 08, 2016 Accepted: June 16, 2016 Abstract: Background: The leather industry contributes vast amounts of pollution damaging to aquatic and terrestrial environments. Leather dust is a chromium-contaminated waste produced from the shaving and buffering processes involved in leather tanning. Microorganisms have been investigated for their usefulness in biore...

Animal skin that has been processed to retain its flexibility, toughness, and waterproof nature is known as leather, and the leather industry is New Zealand's seventh largest industry. New Zealand leather is made by processing the skins of animals slaughtered in the meat processing industry, and hence the majority of skins tanned are those of sheep and cattle. Animal skins are converted to leat...

Collagen, a unique connective tissue protein finds extensive application as prosthesis, artificial tissue, drug carrier, cosmetics and leather industry. This work has been undertaken to stabilize collagen using oxazolidine zirconium oxalate crosslinking agents. It found that both imparts thermal stability collagen, exhibits marked rise in the peak temperature when compared native tanned collage...

A large case-control study of bladder cancer (2982 cases; 5782 controls) included information about occupational exposure to leather. Occupational histories of exposed white study subjects were reviewed and 150 were determined to have had "true" on the job exposure to leather. The odds ratio estimate (OR) of bladder cancer associated with such exposure in white subjects (n = 8063) was 1.4 (95% ...

Surface charge and isoelectric point of leather play an important role in the production of leather. However, a precise and rapid method for the determination of leather surface charge and isoelectric point is unavailable nowadays due to the complexity of the structure of leather, especially for chromefree tanned leather. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a quantitative determination method...

(w ww .m ed kn ow .co m) . shoes and to the inner surface of the sandal strap of the third volunteer. The pieces were left in place for one week during which period, the volunteers used the shoes routinely. A small piece of leather 1 x 1 cm in size was removed after one week from each of the six pieces and subjected to spot testing with DPC. Of these six pieces of leather, all the leather piece...

Abstract The study aimed to detect elastin protein extracted from leftover bovine leather that is not used in other industries, by conducting some tests identify this and its functional properties the possibility of using it scientific applications, as chemical composition showed contains a high percentage low percentages moisture, fat ash, were conducted find out ability bind water oil compare...

To further understand the effect of chrome tanning on the thermal stability of leather, the thermal shrinkage behaviors of native and chrome-tanned collagen fibers were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) using isoconversional and multivariate non-linear regression (Multivar-NLR) methods. The activation energies of the shrinkage processes were evaluated by both the differential (...